The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-12-15
leland stanford's Gift.

Gov. Stanford's gift is said iii round
Numbers to amount to $4,000, GOO, of
which not less than $S,0O0,000 is the
present value, and the $4,000, ,0G0
seems to be almost within the grasp of
his own generation. He has given to
it $4,000 acres of land not excelled
in this State, and probably in the
world, for fertility and development
in the near future. There are about
$500 acres right around the new col
lege building; the largest tract is at
| the Governors great vineyard, where
there are nearly 1000 acres of bear
| ing vines. In another tract there are
5000 acres. You can imagine what
this vineyard ought to do from the
fact that right at the university is
vineyard of forty acres, from which
the Governor has received as high as
1900 year for the grapes alone,and
never less than So, 200.
Much of the land within few miles
of this university now brings $1,000 per
acre. 1t is true that all such lands
are covered with orchards or vine
| yards. but most of these are only from
years old to II years old; and saw
one piece of ground of ten OF twelve
acres over which there is lawsuit be-
| tween TWO AIult- plChSio, ohC VI iAoihA
paws $500 year to pick the fruit
alone, and the other, thinking HIM
self swindled at not getting the fruit
to pick, has brought this suit.
l This land, however, even with or
chards and vineyards upon it, would
seem to be a prospective and specula-
tive dover to a college if it were not
for the fact that the building, which l
personally walked over and took in
with nv eve, is in size almost uneK-
ampled in the history of college build
ings The house now going up, which
is expected to be dedicated and occu-
pied next year ut the time the son of
MFR. Stanford would have been man
at his majority had he lived. is COG
feet long by 200 feet wide. This is
the size of the quadrangle merely, and
: the cloister or covered walk around
: the inside of the square is LOO feet
in length. The Capitol at Washington
is, l think, little longer than the first
: block of this Stanford University. Ii
: there be people ready to jump at the
conclusion that so much building indi
oates lavish expenditure and future
extravaganza in keeping itup, would
arrest their wisdom by the remark
3 that this great quadrangle is only on'
, story high, and is conceived in breadth
7 but not in loftiness. and with due
1 reference to the future-indeed wit!
2 more reference to q hundred year
I hence than to the present day: Th'
man who resolved to conclude his ca
. reer and lay his ashes in this institu
ton has been wideawake all his life
\ and has avoided notoriety and loud
4 ness, and with all his success has beel
}; perhaps the most modest man in Cali
i fornia. Although a Protestant, and il
1 all his feelings an American of the oil
y New England and New York stock
he has regarded the old mission-house
. of the Spanish Jesuits in Californi
/ with practical eye, and they wer
n recommended to him for their cool
n ness, their stability against storm
h and earthquakes, and, on the whole
their picturesqueness and consonanc
II with landscape which often reveal
4 to the mind the similar structures c
the Spanish in the land of the Moor
o about old Granada.-Gath IN Ctnctn
e natl Enquirer.